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After I restored and moved a website for a client the Dashboard section was completely empty. I couldn’t get to Posts, Media etc. I had to go to /wp-admin/includes/screen.php and on line 706 find the following PHP statement: <?php echo self::$this->_help_sidebar; ?>, then replace it with the statement: <?php echo $this->_help_sidebar; ?>.

If you have ever moved a WordPress site from one domain to another, you have inevitably come across the problem where the old URLs are now broken and will need to be updated. When you have websites with databases over 90MB, this could be a daunting experience. Luckily Search Replace DB has saved my behind every time!

I’m a little late for for this party as this was news back in 2013. With that admission out of the way, let’s get to the excitement if you haven’t heard it already. For as long as I can remember EIGRP (Enhanced Interior Gateway Routing Protocol) has always been a Cisco proprietary routing protocol. While reading Cisco CCIE Routing and Switching v5.0, I came across something that was news to me, that there is an informational RFC on EIGRP. That would mean that maybe we’ll see a other vendors coming out with EIGRP support in the future, spreading the love for the protocol.

Before we get too excited, it looks as if Cisco intentions are to only release the basic features of EIGRP and not everything that the protocol has to offer. One has to start somewhere, right?

Out of courtesy, I perform a couple more steps. Sending an email to their personal email account to let the affected recipients know what has been done and to inform them that a test email will be sent to their Office365 email simply to verify that it actually forwards properly to their personal email.

Template of email to inform recipient that forwarding has been configured:

We have created forwarding rules for your Office365 email and will send a test message to office365email@email.com. This test message should appear automatically in your personal mailboxes (personalemail1@email.com and personalemail2@email.com)

Test email template:

Subject: Email forward confirmation requested

This email is to confirm that automatic forwarding has been set up on your Office365 email account to forward to your personal email account. Please reply as confirmation that you have received it.

There is no need to enter any correspondence in the body of the response email.